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 Thomas Gilbert, 70, founder of the Wainscott Capital Partners
Fund, was found shot once in the head Sunday afternoon in the
bedroom of his Manhattan apartment, police said.
His son was taken into custody and questioned, and he was arrested
on charges of homicide and criminal possession of a weapon on
Monday, according to New York Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
The son was identified as 30-year-old Thomas Gilbert Jr.
The younger Gilbert had visited his parents on Sunday, when he asked
his mother to leave the apartment so he could speak privately with
his father, Boyce said at a news conference.
When the mother returned, she found her husband shot in the head,
with a gun resting on his chest covered by his left hand, Boyce
said.
 Detectives called to the apartment determined it was a "staged crime
scene," he said.
"The gun laying where it was, it didn't seem it was a self-inflicted
wound," he said.
Police apprehended the younger Gilbert at his apartment in another
part of Manhattan, Boyce said.
Police said a .40-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene of the
shooting, on Manhattan's affluent East Side. Ammunition matching the
gun as well as the manufacturer's box for a Glock handgun was found
at the son's apartment, Boyce said.
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The elder Gilbert, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard
Business School, founded Wainscott in 2011 and was the fund's chief
investment officer, according to a profile on its website.
Gilbert also was a co-founder of Syzygy Therapeutics, a private
equity biotech asset acquisition fund that he left to form
Wainscott, the profile said.
Wainscott returned 10.48 percent in the first 11 months of 2014,
lagging the S&P 500’s roughly 12 percent gain and its 43.92 percent
return in 2013, according to a source with access to the fund’s
performance figures.
(Additional reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss; Editing by Bernadette
Baum, Andre Grenon and Steve Orlofsky)
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